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Sylvain Maechler
Sylvain Maechler holds a PhD in political science from the University of Lausanne for a thesis entitled “Accounting for Nature: Risk, Uncertainty, and the Global Political Economy of the Ecological Crisis”. He currently holds a Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for a research project on green central banking. This research focuses on how central banks cope with ecological challenges, in particular climate change and biodiversity loss, and how they make sense of these threats to the financial system. Sylvain’s research lies at the intersection of global environmental governance and international political economy. It focuses on how contemporary capitalism faces the global ecological crisis, particularly through the economic and financial valuation of nature and other measuring, accounting, and market-based instruments. His research has been published in several journals, including New Political Economy, Review of International Political Economy, and Global Environmental Politics. Prior to joining the University of Ottawa, Sylvain was Graduate Assistant and PhD Student at the University of Lausanne, where he is still research fellow. He also held visiting researcher positions at Goethe University of Frankfurt (2023) and at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (2020-2021). He holds a Bachelor degree in International Relations, and a Master degree in Environmental Science, both from the University of Geneva. Between his studies and starting his PhD, he worked for one year in the field of environmental economics and nature conservation in Geneva and Santo Domingo.
